The Petersburg High School girls basketball team got its first taste of conference competition last weekend, taking on the Glacier Bears in Haines.

The Lady Vikings played Haines twice over two days in what was also the host team’s first experience of conference play this season.

Petersburg has faced both Metlakatla and Wrangell earlier this season in tournaments but those games were not considered for conference standings.

“Haines is a good, young, aggressive, scrappy team and they were two good games for us,” Head Coach Dino Brock said.

“I thought that we definitely improved over the weekend...